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Flagler: Rockefeller Partner and Florida Baron (Paperback or Softback)
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- Condition
- ISBN
- 0813011086
- EAN
- 9780813011080
- Binding
- TP
- Book Title
- Flagler : Rockefeller Partner and Florida Baron
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida
- Publication Year
- 1991
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Features
- Reprint
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, History
- Topic
- General, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Corporate & Business History, Business
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 17 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 303 Pages
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From reviews of the first edition: "A succinct and informed account of Flagler's] leadership in transforming Florida's economy."-- American Historical Review "An important contribution to the understanding of Standard Oil's extended partnership and how the personal desire of Flagler led to the early development of Florida's Atlantic Coast."-- The Historian Henry M. Flagler (1830-1913), the ambitious Gilded Age tycoon who designed and built much of Florida's fashionable east coast, rode to success on the rails. As John D. Rockefeller's closest adviser in the 1870s, Flagler helped assemble the Standard Oil empire. In this thoroughly researched biography, Akin shows that Flagler understood early in his career that cheap freight rates determined industrial profits. Portraying Flagler as an aggressive entrepreneur, Akin documents his shrewd negotiations to obtain reduced rates, rebates, and drawbacks from the railroads, thus assuring Standard Oil's national domination over oil transportation costs. Flagler drove himself as hard as he drove a bargain, obsessed with the desire to create a monument to himself that he called "my domain." His legacy was no less than modern Florida. In 1885, at the age of fifty-five, he turned his attention away from Standard Oil and began construction of the Ponce de Leon luxury hotel in St. Augustine, the city where he had honeymooned with his second wife. Realizing he could never fill its rooms unless better transportation with the North was available, he embarked on the second railroad venture of his lifetime, creation of the Florida East Coast Railway. Flagler's resort empire eventually included The Breakers in Palm Beach and the Royal Palm in Miami; his Atlantic coast railroad extended all the way to Key West, an engineering achievement that was called the "eighth wonder of the world." By the beginning of the twentieth century, Flagler dominated not just the resort and railroad industries in Florida but steamship and agricultural operations, too. Florida politicians gave his projects preferential treatment, even changing the state's divorce law so he could marry for a third time. Woven into this biography are details about Flagler's family, personality, three marriages, alienation from his only son, and devotion to the Presbyterian church--copy that fueled society gossip columns from New York to Palm Beach for decades. Edward N. Akin, author of Mississippi: An Illustrated History and other works on southern history, taught at Mississippi College in Clinton. His biography of Henry Flagler won the 1985 Phi Alpha Theta manuscript prize.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University Press of Florida
ISBN-10
0813011086
ISBN-13
9780813011080
eBay Product ID (ePID)
477819
Product Key Features
Book Title
Flagler : Rockefeller Partner and Florida Baron
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Topic
General, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Corporate & Business History, Business
Publication Year
1991
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, History
Number of Pages
303 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
17 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hc102.5.F55a75 1991
Edition Description
Reprint
Copyright Date
1992
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
91-027086
Dewey Decimal
338/.04/0924 B
Series
Florida Sand Dollar Bks.
Dewey Edition
19
Illustrated
Yes
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